If you’ve been by Marine Parade lately, you may have noticed a building being erected along the seaside, beside the south end of the Ramada Princess Hotel. Construction began a few weeks ago and the idea is to establish a family-oriented restaurant. Well, that’s the plan of Hiasam and Ekaterina Diab, who entered into a […]
In March 2017, Calaney Flowers was acquitted of the murder of her ex-boyfriend, Lyndon Morrison, who was riding his motorcycle with his new girlfriend in the area of Freetown Road when he was knocked down and killed. But her case continues to meander in the courts even though she was freed. In the Court of […]
There is some good news coming out of Sacred Heart Primary School. Today, we got an update from Principal Philippa Hulett and she says they have found a solution to the massive sewerage problem that caused the school to shut down. Details of that plan will be shared with the media later this week. We […]
An attempt was made on the life of twenty-two-year-old Raheem Gordon. The Belize City man was sitting inside his house on Casuarina Street on Sunday night around eight-thirty, when a bullet zipped passed his ear and hit the concrete wall. The fragments from the wall caused a small injury to Gordon’s neck. When we spoke […]
In the early hours of Sunday morning, Nathaniel Lockwood of Sand Hill Village was shot several times in the chest and stomach in Gardenia Village. Twenty-one-year-old Lockwood is now listed in a stable condition at the K.H.M.H. Police say that Lockwood and a friend were on a motorcycle when they were pursued by someone in […]
Police are asking for your help in locating Ruby Petino. The Guatemalan national was living with a friend on East Collet Canal up to the time of her disappearance on October sixteenth. Police say Petino was with her baby when they left home and has not been seen or heard from since. Today, police shared […]
The marijuana debate has fizzled with the decriminalization of a small quantity for personal use in 2017. Weed smokers across the country continue to enjoy the freedom of possessing up to ten grams of cannabis without fear of prosecution, while farmers and retailers remain under close scrutiny by law enforcement for cultivation, trafficking and retailing. […]
Wesley College is hosting its twentieth annual “Red Ribbon” week. The school dedicates a week each year to promote awareness of the impacts of drug use and abuse. To do this, the school hosts a number of activities to encourage students to engage in positive hobbies and resist influences. Andrea Polanco shares more from today’s […]
A group of Belizean media sat down with an international law lecturer at the Mexican Autonomous University in Mexico City last Friday. Professor Carlos Bernal shared his experience as a legal advisor for Mexico in its case at the I.C.J. Bernal asserts that Belize should take the claim to the I.C.J., he also acknowledges there […]
An issue in the minds of many is whether there could be any geopolitical influence on the judges sitting at the International Court of Justice? Bernal says decisions are about international law. Carlos Bernal, Professor of International Law, Mexican Autonomous University “Politics is politics. I am sure all the judges read the papers every […]
A feud among neighbors has resulted in a young woman losing the use of an eye after being struck repeatedly to the head and body during a physical altercation last Friday. Felicia Audinett was reportedly mobbed by a group of persons near her home on Riverside Street, following an exchange of words. Despite an attempt […]
The Stella Maris School in Belize City officially opened its “Leela Vernon” music room. The school has added a music programme to its offerings after it received a number of music equipment including music sheets, saxophone, and trombone. We stopped in for the ribbon cutting at today’s event. Karima Oshon, Principal, Stella Maris School […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend in sports….]
After being missing for seven days, thirty-six-year-old Felina James was found murdered and her body dumped along the Coastal Road. Her remains were discovered by a caretaker of a nearby farm. He told police that he smelled what he believed was a rotting carcas of a horse but upon making checks, he realized that it […]
The families of Richard and Maria Stuart exited the court today in an emotional state. Ten years ago to date, the young couple was brutally murdered at their house in the West Landivar area of Belize City after returning home from a social event. In the days following, two men were charged for the couple’s […]
Four persons are lucky to be alive tonight after they were involved in a head-on collision this morning. It happened at around seven o’clock between miles two and three of the Stann Creek Valley Road. Forty-two-year-old Karima Martinez was driving a white Ford Escape with her seventeen-year-old daughter in the passenger seat, heading towards Dangriga. […]
There are more details tonight on a number of persons who were held at the western border on Thursday for hours. About two hundred Guatemalan nationals arrived at the border in buses and were initially not allowed entry by immigration officials. Subsequently, the officials were able to verify that the group had travelled here for […]
A sewerage problem at the Sacred Heart Primary School in Dangriga has caused the school to shut down and students have been away from classes for eight days. The school’s catholic management is directly responsible for the infrastructure and today when we asked Minister of Education Patrick Faber to comment on the matter, he responded […]
Minister, Patrick Faber also had some strong words for the Belize National Teachers Union and its president, Senator Elena Smith. Minister Faber was asked for an update regarding delayed meetings between the B.N.T.U. and the Ministry as it relates to the re-categorization of hardship schools and time-off for payday. Last week the B.N.T.U. issued a […]
The B.N.T.U. is also upset that there has been no progress regarding Proposal Twenty-Two which covers a number of issues including a proposal to have government pay one hundred percent of teachers’ salaries who are employed at grant aided secondary schools. Last week the B.N.T.U. pointed out that dates set for a meeting to discuss […]
Moving on the crime, police in Corozal Town found a rusty nine millimeter pistol with no serial number on Thursday afternoon at Dominguez Layout. Since no one was in the immediate area, it was deposited as ‘found property’. The pistol did not contain a magazine nor did it have any visible serial number or brand […]
Three men have been charged for allegedly trafficking five thousand, four hundred and thirty-five grams of marijuana. They are twenty-nine year old Deon Arnold, nineteen-year-old Ian Young, and twenty-nine-year-old Alex Lewis, all of Hattieville Village. The men were busted on Thursday morning on the Patchakan Road, Corozal District. Police say the men were acting suspicious […]
A group of reporters from various media houses are tonight in Mexico City in anticipation of a visit to the International Court of Justice in the Hague sometime in November. That tour is called Fear to Facts: Demystifying the I.C.J. and is being organized by the United States Embassy and sponsored by the U.S. State […]
Litigation risk is always a consideration when legal matters go before the courts. In this case, the resolution of the territorial dispute between both countries also comes with the possibility of Belize losing the case before the I.C.J. It is a serious and careful thought to be made ahead of the April 2019 referendum. Professor […]
Earlier today the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Patrick Faber, also expressed his view on the I.C.J. He says persons who are opposed in taking Guatemala’s claim to the court for final resolution have taken that decision based on emotions. While Faber is a pro-I.C.J., he says that the constituents in Collet will […]
